Fri. Mar 29th, 2024
Amer Fort Jaipur

The “Greatest literary show on Earth” and the “Kumbh of literature” Jaipur Literature Festival kicks off. The biggest show of five days will witness over 380 speakers and thousands of literary enthusiasts converging at the Diggy Palace Hotel.

The 2018 JLF big hit 

The number says a lot, and at the Jaipur Literature Festival JLF which kicks off on January 25 – they speak volumes.Try 3.5 lakhs footfalls in the last edition, over 380 speakers representing 15 Indian and 20 international languages in 2018 and 3 international outposts – in Boulder, New York, and London for size.

But what gives Jaipur Literature Festival it’s iconic status is not just it’s staggering size but also it’s depths.

Inaugural function:

With an exciting line up of eminent personalities including Michael Ondaatje, Rupi Kaur, and Anurag Kashyap the Jaipur Literature Festival on 25 announced the beginning of JLF 2018.

Eminent Speakers:

The festival will feature a line up of speakers representing the major awards including the Nobel Prize, Man Booker award, Pulitzer award, Padma Vibhishan and the Sahitya Academy award.

The literary event expects to host speakers representing over 15 Indian and more than 20 international languages.

The first list includes English novelist and author of the iconic Bridget Jones Diary, Helen Fielding; Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter from The Boston Globe’s Spotlight team Michael Rezendes; Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club; 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mohammad Yunus; and former president of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai.

Several eminent Indian personalities including Sahitya Akademi Award winner Mridula Garg; award-winning Indian film director-producer Anurag Kashyap; Indian art critic, art historian, Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan awardee, BN Goswamy; Indian classical dancer and Padma Vibhushan awardee Sonal Mansingh; Indian philanthropist and writer Sudha Murty.

“2018 may be the best Jaipur ever, fielding an unrivaled literary ‘First Eleven’ made up of star poets and acclaimed novelists, historians and biographers, thinkers and dreamers and scribblers and critics, genii and half the faculty of Harvard. It’s an astonishing lineup and I can’t wait for the 25th of January to see it all become a reality,” William Dalrymple, writer, historian and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival, said.

The literary extravaganza will come to an end on January 29.

By himani